The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

I guess they are learning that people are not all good. Some people want to take advantage, some people want to make fun of them, some people want to sell them drugs, some people want to bang on the drum all day, some people want to discredit them. Idealism might work somewhere, but not in this world.
They really should elect a group to lead and be the spokespeople for the group and jell around a common ideas. That way, people will know better if they agree or disagree with the message.

They should not have to work 18 hours, some of the homeless can give back by working at many jobs. If they will not work, then they cannot eat. One thing they have in common with the other unemployed occupiers who are working, is they have plenty of time and need to work or go away.

You know...it is an odd position that the professional homeless are putting the #OWS in. It will be tricky. However, there maybe a simple solution. If they are participating in the protest by providing clean up duties, security, and in some way contributing to the cause...then they deserve to be fed. But, if they sleep all day...and/or do nothing for the cause...then they are taking advantage of #OWS.

Until this country adopts some Geneva Convention to control what means by which communities attack the homeless and make their lives miserable, we are going to have a situation in which any community which is too nice to them becomes overwhelmed. We need to guarantee the positive rights of all Americans to basic food, water, shelter, and medical care in order to end such aberrations.

They should be eating brown rice & lentils every day. For a year I lived on nothing but corn & soybeans with a pinch of salt & vitamin C. I bought a bushel of corn from the feed store and soybeans from seed stores, a tofu factory & a farmer. (Twice as much corn as soybeans and I'd grind 'em up separately running the corn through twice.)